Our community is very solid; the future here is very bright. There are many to thank for this, and one of these is Dan Reneau. Although inevitable, your writer personally states that this is a moment of sadness to see Dan Reneau relinquish the helm at Louisiana Tech University. There is so much that I could write here about Dan, and if he is reading this column, he is probably squirming at this exact moment. I won’t pick on him today.

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